Freestyle Nelson Bliss - The latest experiment out of the Freestyle Hop Research Lab

Building on field trials from 2023 Freestyle undertook a new experimental processing trial for the 2024 season. This is called our "Bliss process" which has the goal of capturing as much of the tropical intensity of Nelson Sauvin as possible without losing the brighter citrus and wine-y notes from earlier harvested Nelson.  This process is aimed at maximising the free thiols (sweet tropical characters) that are most prominent in a super late harvest Nelson Sauvin lot without losing some of the terpene-driven brightness which typically would happen in those types of lots. The 2024 Nelson Bliss tries to thread the needle and get the huge tropical sweetness while maintaining a balanced and brighter character.  

This Nelson Sauvin lot has field aromas of Mango, Red Grapefruit, Lychee.

PLEASE NOTE: This yeast has a BBD of 28th Feb 2026 and has therefore been reduced.

Elevate your lager game with the WHC Lab Einstein German Lager yeast, meticulously crafted based on the trusted Weihenstephan strain. This yeast strain embodies the essence of German brewing precision, offering you a tool to create lagers that truly stand out. Renowned for its clean and crisp profile, it ensures that your beer’s essence shines through with unrivaled clarity and purity.

Amplifire™ Fresh Hop Oil by Clayton Hops is a water-soluble liquid dry hop or brite tank addition product. The product is designed to boost flavour and aroma as well as beer yields and is super easy to use.
It is also a great product for hop water or for boosting hop aroma/flavour in kegged beer.

The extraction process does not use any solvents. Amplifire™ Fresh Hop Oil is free of bittering components.

Nelson Sauvin, Riwaka and Motueka all now available!

The right phenolic yeast for English and Belgian style ales, Fermentis Safale T-58 is a specialty brewer’s yeast selected for its strong fermentation character, intense fruity and phenolic flavours – especially banana, clove and peppery notes. Suitable for a great variety of wheat-base beers and fruity-spicy oriented styles. Yeast with a medium sedimentation: forms no clumps but a powdery haze when resuspended in the beer.

Super Sauvin is an exciting new blend born out of a collab with thiol-related research collaborators at Phantasm where they created a thiol enriched blend of thiol precursor laden Phantasm, combined with Nelson Sauvin that has high concentrations of cysteine bound 3SH precursors, bound 3S4MP precursors and terpene alcohols.  

WLP860 is now available as a Dry Yeast offering brewers a convenient and accessible new way to experience its best-selling yeast strain!

From the oldest operating brewery in Munich. Carefully cultivated and preserved by brewing monks observing time-honored traditions, this strain is renowned for its clean, crisp fermentation balanced by a distinct malty sweetness.  

Whether you're brewing a Märzen with its rich, toasty notes, a Helles with its golden brilliance, or a Bock with its full-bodied complexity, this yeast can do it all - a dependable and versatile strain, sure to be a new favorite for lagers.

Manilita is the latest experimental hop from Freestyle Hops and has been performing well in trials. This Manilita lot has field aromas of Pink Grapefruit, Mango and Nectarine. It can hold its own in hop forward styles but also plays well with terpene heavy supporting actors like Southern Cross or Rakau.

Flavour and aroma impact:
Whirlpool additions: Sweet Mango, Stonefruit and Pink grapefruit.
Dry hopping post fermentation: Nectarine, tropical and Citrus zest

Being part of Freestyle's Research Collective means we get to have access to these exciting experimental hops and you can help out by providing feedback on the hops as they'd love to hear how homebrewers find them. Please contact us with any feedback you have so we can pass it onto them.

Notes of grapefruit and passionfruit define this hop, coupled with notes of pineapple and pine resin. Riwaka delivers smooth bitterness levels that contribute to highly desirable American IPA flavours.

If you want to say “hops” in your beer then this variety says it all. The pure weight of the oil character experienced during selection carries right through to the glass. A punchy addition to the new-world styles of Pale Ale and regional Pilseners. A cult hero that is established in the New Zealand craft beer culture.

Cryo Hops® pellets are the concentrated lupulin of whole-leaf hops containing resins and aromatic oils. It is designed to provide intense hop flavor and aroma, enabling brewers to efficiently dose large quantities of alpha acids and oils without introducing astringent flavors or vegetative material. Cryo Hops® pellets can be utilized anywhere whole-leaf hops and hop pellets are traditionally applied.